“That rare thing: a true underappreciated classic” (The New Yorker), about a smart and sensitive yet deeply troubled young woman fighting to live on her own terms “Provocative . . . Almost half a century after it was first published, The Princess of 72nd Street sounds like a contemporary cry for freedom from the expectations of others.”—The Atlantic “Kraf’s groovy, glimmering novel . . . deserves to be read—not for the nitty-gritty New York of it all but for her wry, confiding voice, which is funny, disarming and frequently ruthless.”—The New York Times I am glad I have the radiance. This time I am wiser. No one will know. . . . The radiance drifts blue circles around my head. If I wanted to I could float up and through them. I am weightless. My brain is cool like rippling waves. Conflict does not exist. For a moment I cannot see—the lights are large orange flowers. Ellen has two lives. A single artist living alone on New York’s Upper West Side in the 1970s, she periodically descends into episodes of what she calls “radiances.” While under the influence of the radiance, she becomes Princess Esmeralda, and West 72nd Street becomes the kingdom over which she rules. Life as Esmeralda is a colorful, glorious, and liberating experience for Ellen, who, despite the chaos and stigma these episodes can bring, relishes the respite from the confines of the everyday. And yet those around her, particularly the men in her life, are threatened by her incarnation as Esmeralda, and by the freedom that it gives her. In what would turn out to be her final published work, Elaine Kraf tackles mental health and female agency in this utterly original, witty, and inventive novel. Provocative at the time of its publication in 1979 and thoroughly iconoclastic, The Princess of 72nd Street is a remarkable portrait of an unforgettable woman.

On the hunt for hidden treasure, two former best friends turned adversaries must put the past behind them if they hope to make it home. This childhood friends-to-lovers male/male romantic fantasy for fans of Tusk Love and Sara Raasch crackles with tension and heat. When he isn’t training as a Warden to become half the hero his father was, Griff Sayer is in the business of breaking hearts all across the town of Mayfair, although that slows down after settling in with his current boyfriend. Griff's ex–best friend, Mal Pryce, meanwhile, is in business with whatever or whoever puts good money in his hands. Now in their mid-twenties, Griff and Mal have only exchanged scathing looks and carefully barbed jabs since the fight that sent them their separate ways years ago. But all that begins to change when an attack Mal plotted for his shady boss leaves Griff near death and their childhood friend Alys as his savior, forcing them back into each other’s orbit. Livid at his boss, Mal makes a deal to earn his freedom and Griff’s safety. He has just four weeks to retrieve an ancient treasure from Rotrose Mire, a remote swamp known for its ghostly and beastly dangers, the same treasure Alys’s beloved father, Rhun, had been searching for when he disappeared for good. Armed with a map and a broken blade of Rhun’s; Mal sets off—with Alys and a reluctant and newly single Griff in tow. Yet the explosive tension between the two men—along with the dangers of the mire pressing in around them—makes for a more difficult journey than any of them could have anticipated. As Griff and Mal peel back their tough facades and shared feelings heat up in unexpected ways as they learn to trust again, they also realize that someone—or something—seems to be following their path. Someone who doesn’t want them to succeed, no friend to their parents’ old enemies, but also no friend to would-be heroes… Our Rogue Fates is a second-chance spicy Achillean romance with the questing spirit of Dungeons & Dragons, perfect for fans of Critical Role.

Skandale, Ruhm und ein Leben am Limit - Charlie Sheen ist der Inbegriff des Hollywood-Rebellen. Diese illustrierte Biografie nimmt Sie mit auf eine Achterbahnfahrt durch die Höhen und Tiefen eines der schillerndsten Schauspieler unserer Zeit. Von der Kindheit in Malibu über die enge, oft komplizierte Beziehung zu seinem Vater Martin Sheen bis hin zu den ersten Schritten im Filmgeschäft: Hier wird deutlich, wie aus Carlos Irwin Estévez der Star wurde, den Millionen kennen. Die Stationen seines Lebens lesen sich wie ein Drehbuch voller Wendungen: Der Durchbruch mit "Red Dawn" und "Platoon", die Zusammenarbeit mit dem Vater in "Wall Street", komödiantische Erfolge mit "Hot Shots!" und der Aufstieg zum bestbezahlten TV-Star mit "Two and a Half Men". Doch Sheens Karriere ist untrennbar mit persönlichen Krisen verbunden - von Drogenproblemen und Rehabilitationsaufenthalten über öffentliche Scheidungen bis hin zu juristischen Auseinandersetzungen und dem spektakulären Rauswurf aus der Erfolgsserie. Das Buch beleuchtet nicht nur die schillernden Seiten, sondern auch die Schatten: Drogenkartell-Geschichten, Beziehungen zu Adult-Film-Stars, der offene Umgang mit seiner HIV-Diagnose und die Folgen für sein Leben und die öffentliche Wahrnehmung. Auch die Versöhnung mit Ex-Frauen, die Beziehung zu seinen Kindern und der Weg zur Nüchternheit seit 2017 finden ihren Platz. Großformatige Fotos begleiten die packenden Texte und lassen die wichtigsten Stationen von Sheens Leben Revue passieren - von der Schulzeit in Santa Monica bis zu aktuellen Projekten wie der Netflix-Dokumentation und dem "Bookie"-Comeback. Ein ideales Geschenk für alle, die den Menschen hinter dem Mythos Charlie Sheen entdecken wollen - ehrlich, facettenreich und voller Überraschungen.

A BRAND NEW World War Two novel of love, courage and family secrets from the BESTSELLING author of The Last Boat Home Must-read for fans of Fiona Valpy and Lorna Cook! 'Spanning continents and decades, this sweeping epic stole my heart' Renita D'Silva Paris, 1940: Marie-Claire steps into the Gare de Lyon, not knowing it will be the last time she'll see her husband and son. Fleeing occupied Paris, she travels into the countryside of Normandy, and stumbles upon a chateau near Caen and a growing resistance movement. Soon, Marie-Claire finds herself working in a cafe in the quiet village of Sainte-Mère-Église, where she tries to come to terms with all she has lost - but little does she realise that her presence in Normandy will change the course of history... 1998: Half a century later, Esther is returning to the Normandy village she visited as a teenager, seeking a break from her monotonous life. Back then, she'd fallen in love with a rustic farmhouse and the family that lived there - not least the charming eldest son, Jules Joubert. But now, when Esther discovers an old annotated cookbook in the family kitchen, she begins to realise that the place she holds so close to her heart may hide more secrets than even the Jouberts realise... What stories does the area carry? And could this trip change Esther's life for ever? Praise for Rachel Sweasey: 'I was swept up by this beautiful story of love, loss and the courage of so many during WW2' - Helen Parusel 'I loved this dual time-line read. Set in the start of WW2 and present day it deals with loss and war and finding love when you don't expect to ever love again. This was a great book and I highly recommend this one.' Goodreads reviewer 'Loved this book. I got totally immersed in the characters and their lives, loves and loss. The mix of fact and fiction and the two different time lines worked very well.' Goodreads reviewer 'A brutally honest account of how both men and women coped with the changes in their lives. This author writes so authentically about grieving that at times I simply had to stop reading. Anyone who has lost someone will immediately identify with the visceral pain felt by the characters. The settings were gorgeous and the descriptions of French food made me long to go back.' Goodreads reviewer 'Loved it, sadness and joy, ups and downs. Hope there will be a sequel!' Goodreads reviewer 'Fantastic read, was enjoyable - even cried at one part I felt I was inside the book.' Goodreads reviewer

Skandale, Ruhm und ein Leben am Limit - Charlie Sheen ist der Inbegriff des Hollywood-Rebellen. Diese illustrierte Biografie nimmt Sie mit auf eine Achterbahnfahrt durch die Höhen und Tiefen eines der schillerndsten Schauspieler unserer Zeit. Von der Kindheit in Malibu über die enge, oft komplizierte Beziehung zu seinem Vater Martin Sheen bis hin zu den ersten Schritten im Filmgeschäft: Hier wird deutlich, wie aus Carlos Irwin Estévez der Star wurde, den Millionen kennen. Die Stationen seines Lebens lesen sich wie ein Drehbuch voller Wendungen: Der Durchbruch mit "Red Dawn" und "Platoon", die Zusammenarbeit mit dem Vater in "Wall Street", komödiantische Erfolge mit "Hot Shots!" und der Aufstieg zum bestbezahlten TV-Star mit "Two and a Half Men". Doch Sheens Karriere ist untrennbar mit persönlichen Krisen verbunden - von Drogenproblemen und Rehabilitationsaufenthalten über öffentliche Scheidungen bis hin zu juristischen Auseinandersetzungen und dem spektakulären Rauswurf aus der Erfolgsserie. Das Buch beleuchtet nicht nur die schillernden Seiten, sondern auch die Schatten: Drogenkartell-Geschichten, Beziehungen zu Adult-Film-Stars, der offene Umgang mit seiner HIV-Diagnose und die Folgen für sein Leben und die öffentliche Wahrnehmung. Auch die Versöhnung mit Ex-Frauen, die Beziehung zu seinen Kindern und der Weg zur Nüchternheit seit 2017 finden ihren Platz. Großformatige Fotos begleiten die packenden Texte und lassen die wichtigsten Stationen von Sheens Leben Revue passieren - von der Schulzeit in Santa Monica bis zu aktuellen Projekten wie der Netflix-Dokumentation und dem "Bookie"-Comeback. Ein ideales Geschenk für alle, die den Menschen hinter dem Mythos Charlie Sheen entdecken wollen - ehrlich, facettenreich und voller Überraschungen.

A brand new crime-fighting western series from Casey Nash has arrived! This is "Jubal Stone: U.S. Marshal" and if you're a criminal—he's coming to get you! The frontier was no place to hang your hat if you were a coward or weakling, and sometimes even the strong and brave fell victim to the violence that stalked the land and plagued this new and untamed country. Such was the case with Sheriff Joe Stone and his family. Joe was a man's man from his narrow-brimmed hat down to his tarnished iron spurs. He had a hickory spine and anvils for fists. A lawman for over twenty-five years, Joe Stone split his time as a Texas ranger and sheriff, keeping law and order in frontier towns all over the Texas territory. Yet, because of the incessant pleadings from his wife, Millie, and his own desire to live a more tranquil life, Stone checked his badge, hung up his shootin' iron, and took up raising cows and a few head of horses. Together, with their daughter and son, they were committed to make a go of it, and had started well. With two-and-a-half decades behind the star, Joe, like other lawmen with his tenure, he had plenty of enemies. Unfortunately, the last who tried achieved their mission. Four killers showed up at his ranch one day, bank robbers recently released from prison, men Stone had put behind bars. They ambushed Joe and his family, shooting them down like dogs. However, the assassins made a grave mistake that fateful day. They failed to confirm that fourteen-year-old Jubal, shot and left for dead, was indeed dead. Now, eight years later, Marshal Jubal Stone wears a badge of his own. A .44 Colt sits low on his hip in a dark brown, well-worn leather holster latched down to his leg, both gun and holster his pa's. Now behind a United States Marshal's badge, Jubal Stone will show no mercy when he crosses paths with killers, highbinders, and outlaws foolish enough to challenge his authority. He's curry combing the frontier in search of his family's killers, but in the meantime, he will mete out justice along the way.

The #1 New York Times Bestselling Series! Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth's fate hinges on one girl. . . . Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She's a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister's illness. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince Kai's, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle, and a forbidden attraction. Caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal, she must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect her world's future. Marissa Meyer on Cinder, writing, and leading men Which of your characters is most like you? I wish I could say that I'm clever and mechanically-minded like Cinder, but no-I can't fix anything. I'm much more like Cress, who makes a brief cameo in Cinder and then takes a more starring role in the third book. She's a romantic and a daydreamer and maybe a little on the naïve side-things that could be said about me too-although she does find courage when it's needed most. I think we'd all like to believe we'd have that same inner strength if we ever needed it. Where do you write? I have a home office that I've decorated with vintage fairy tale treasures that I've collected (my favorite is a Cinderella cookie jar from the forties) and NaNoWriMo posters, but sometimes writing there starts to feel too much like work. On those days I'll write in bed or take my laptop out for coffee or lunch. If you were stranded on a desert island, which character from Cinder would you want with you? Cinder, definitely! She has an internet connection in her brain, complete with the ability to send and receive comms (which are similar to e-mails). We'd just have enough time to enjoy some fresh coconut before we were rescued. The next book in the Lunar Chronicles is called Scarlet, and is about Little Red Riding Hood. What is appealing to you most about this character as you work on the book? Scarlet is awesome-she's very independent, a bit temperamental, and has an outspokenness that tends to get her in trouble sometimes. She was raised by her grandmother, an ex-military pilot who now owns a small farm in southern France, who not only taught Scarlet how to fly a spaceship and shoot a gun, but also to have a healthy respect and appreciation for nature. I guess that's a lot of things that appeal to me about her, but she's been a really fun character to write! (The two leading men in Scarlet, Wolf and Captain Thorne, aren't half bad either.)

Prepare for the final descent into darkness. Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author Peter V. Brett brings one of the most imaginative fantasy sagas of the twenty-first century to an epic close. The war has begun... For time out of mind, bloodthirsty demons have stalked the night, culling the human race to scattered remnants dependent on half-forgotten magics to protect them. Two heroes arose - men as close as brothers, yet divided by bitter betrayal. Arlen Bales became known as the Painted Man, tattooed head-to-toe with powerful magic symbols that enable him to fight demons in hand-to-hand combat - and emerge victorious. Ahmann Jardir, armed with magically warded weapons, called himself the Deliverer, a figure prophesied to unite humanity and lead them to triumph in Sharak Ka - the final war against demonkind. But in their efforts to bring the war to the demons, Arlen and Jardir have set something in motion that may prove the end of everything they hold dear - a Swarm. Now the war is at hand, and humanity cannot hope to win it unless Arlen and Jardir, with the help of Arlen's wife, Renna, can bend a captured demon prince to their will and force the devious creature to lead them to the Core, where the Mother of Demons breeds an inexhaustible army. Trusting their closest confidantes, Leesha, Inevera, Ragen, and Elissa, to rally the fractious people of the Free Cities and lead them against the Swarm, Arlen, Renna, and Jardir set out on a desperate quest into the darkest depths of evil - from which none of them expects to return alive.

Gary Soneji is a mild-mannered mathematics teacher at a Washington, D.C., private school for the children of the political and social elite. He's so popular that the kids all call him "Mr Chips". And he's very, very smart. Growing up, he always knew he was smarter than the rest of them - he knew that the Great Ones always fooled everybody. He kidnaps Maggie Rose, the golden-haired daughter of a famous movie actress, and her best friend, Shrimpie Goldberg, the son of the secretary of the treasury, right out from under the noses of their two Secret Service agents. But Gary Soneji is not surprised at his skill. He's done it before. Hundreds of times before. Alex Cross is a homicide detective with a Ph.D. in psychology. He looks like Muhammad Ali in his prime. Cross works and lives in the ghettos of D.C. He's a tough guy from a tough part of town who wears Harris Tweed jackets and likes to relax by banging out Gershwin tunes on his baby grand piano. He has two adorable kids of his own. They are his own special vulnerabilities. Jezzie Flanagan is the first woman ever to hold the highly sensitive job as supervisor of the Secret Service in Washington. Blond, mysterious, seductive, she's got an outer shell that's as tough as it is beautiful. She rides her black BMW motorcycle at speeds of no less than 100 mph. What is she running from? What is her secret? Alex Cross and Jezzie Flanagan are about to have a forbidden love affair - at the worst possible time for both of them. Because Gary Soneji, who wants to commit the "crime of the century", is playing at the top of his game. The latest of the unspeakable crimes happened in Alex Cross's precinct. They happened under the protection of JezzieFlanagan's men. Now Soneji is at large again, still wreaking havoc. Alex Cross must face the ultimate test as a psychologist: how do you outmaneuver a brilliant psychopath? Especially one who appears to have a split personality - one who won't let the other half remember those horrific acts? Soneji has outsmarted the FBI, the Secret Service, and the police. Who will be his next victim? Gary Soneji is every parent's worst nightmare. He has become Alex Cross's nightmare. And now, reader, he's about to become yours.

Sometimes love shows up where you least expect it—right next door. A jaded twenty-something is stuck living at home, her life on pause, when a single dad becomes her new neighbor, and unexpectedly sets her life—and her heart—into motion in this modern love story from the bestselling author of You, Again. Praise for Kate Goldbeck: "This debut romance ticks all the boxes of a must-read, with plenty of bite giving it edge." Kirkus (*starred review*) "A masterclass in banter." – Rosie Danan, bestselling author of The Roommate "Fresh, witty, and utterly romantic.“ – Ali Hazelwood, New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis "You can’t help but enjoy every second of the ride.” NPR, “Books We Love in 2023” At 26, Sam Pulaski expected to be thriving in her academic career, living on her own in some exciting city. Expectations, meet reality. She has massive student loans from studying art history, a dead-end service industry job, a situationship that’s equal parts intoxicating and toxic. And she’s been crashing in her mom’s condo—at least it’s not a basement?—for the last five years. If she can finally get accepted into a PhD program and get out of Ohio, the adult life that’s been on hold for half her twenties will finally begin. Her mom’s new neighbor, Nick, is the ultimate grownup. His adult life began the moment his nine-year-old daughter, Kira, was born. Her happiness is Nick’s only priority, especially in the wake of divorce. There’s nothing he won’t do for Kira–including giving up his globetrotting career for something more stable…like managing a chain restaurant. Sam has zero interest in an ultra-dependable guy pushing forty; frankly, she’s a little afraid of kids. But with just one thin wall separating the two condos, Nick proves difficult to avoid. His quiet confidence forces Sam to grapple with the other men in her life: her emotionally derelict friend-with-benefits and her actually-derelict father. As her unexpected connection with Nick heats up (and steams up his minivan windows), Sam finds herself falling fast for a man whose life is steady and settled–while hers is anything but.

Editor of the award-winning site Feministing.com, Maya Dusenbery brings together scientific and sociological research, interviews with doctors and researchers, and personal stories from women across the country to provide the first comprehensive, accessible look at the widespread gender bias in healthcare and how sexism in medicine harms women today. In Doing Harm, Dusenbery explores the deep, systemic problems that underlie women’s experiences of feeling dismissed by the medical system through a pattern of medical gaslighting. Women have been discharged from the emergency room mid-heart attack with a prescription for anti-anxiety meds, while others with autoimmune diseases have been labeled “chronic complainers” for years before being properly diagnosed. Women with endometriosis have been told they are just overreacting to “normal” menstrual cramps, while still others have “contested” illnesses like chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia that, dogged by psychosomatic suspicions, have yet to be fully accepted as “real” diseases by the whole of the profession. An eye-opening read for patients and health care providers alike, Doing Harm shows how women suffer from two invisible problems: a knowledge gap, where the medical community knows relatively less about their diseases, and a trust gap, where it too often doesn’t believe their reports of their symptoms. The research community has neglected conditions that disproportionately affect women and paid little attention to biological differences between the sexes in everything from drug metabolism to the symptoms of heart disease in women. Meanwhile, a long history of viewing women as especially prone to “hysteria” reverberates to the present day, leaving women battling against a stereotype that they’re hypochondriacs whose ailments are likely to be “all in their heads.” Offering a clear-eyed explanation of the root causes of this insidious and entrenched bias and laying out its sometimes catastrophic consequences, Doing Harm is a rallying wake-up call for patient advocacy that will change the way we look at health care for women. How does a medical system built for men fail half the population? Medical Misogyny: Uncover the history of ‘hysteria’ and see how the stereotype of women as unreliable narrators of their own symptoms continues to cause harm and misdiagnosis today. Autoimmune Disease: Learn why conditions that disproportionately affect women, from lupus to rheumatoid arthritis, often take years to diagnose, with patients being dismissed as ‘chronic complainers’ along the way. Chronic Pain Conditions: Investigate why ‘contested’ illnesses like fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome are dogged by psychosomatic suspicion, leaving millions of women to suffer without answers. Endometriosis and Pelvic Pain: Discover how the normalization of menstrual pain leads to devastating diagnostic delays for the millions suffering from endometriosis, who are told they are just overreacting.

Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: good, University of Potsdam (Institute for Anglistics/ American Studies), course: "After our war how will love speak", WS 03/04, language: English, abstract: The Vietnam War originally was a civil war between the Southern and the Northern part of Vietnam. The USA started being involved in 1954. They tried to support South Vietnam. The Vietnam War ended in 1975, when the communist troops invaded the South Vietnamese city Saigon, the last American soldiers fled and Saigon capitulated without any conditions. The American aim of the war was to combat communism, as the Northern part of Vietnam was communistic. The US government feared more Asian states would fall to communism and similar battles would break out between the states (like the civil war between the two Vietnamese states); if they lost the war in Vietnam, this was called the Domino theory. During the Vietnam War about 7 Million tons of bombs were dropped and other devastations were caused by herbicides, like Agent Orange. During the Vietnam War about 55000 (concrete number below) American soldiers died, half of them weren¿t even 21 years old; many of them were blacks and/ or children of a working-class- family. All in all the Vietnam War cost 2,5 Million lives, 90% were civilians of South Vietnam, people that were to be protected by the US soldiers. But not only men were in Country, "The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs knows exactly how many men served in Vietnam (2,594,200) and how many were killed in action (58,188). It can furnish all kinds of stats about those soldiers, like the percentage of men who worked in supply (between 60 and 70 percent) as opposed to combat (30 to 40 percent). But ask about the women who served in Vietnam -- women other than nurses -- and the numbers disappear. The records are muddled, they say; the files don¿t work that way. Yes, the armed forces sent women to Vietnam, but an official record of their presence there doesn¿t really exist. At least 1,200 female soldiers were stationed in Vietnam in various branches of the military as photojournalists, clerks, typists, intelligence officers, translators, flight controllers, even band leaders. They served prominently in Saigon, in the Mekong Delta and at Long Binh, which was, for a time, the largest Army headquarters in the world. They could not fight, nor were they allowed to carry weapons to defend themselves. Most were part of the pioneering Women¿s Army Corps (WAC), created in 1942 to integrate the armed forces. All of them enlisted for service in Vietnam, mostly in the early part of the war. Like a lot of Vietnam veterans, these women have been dogged by their experiences in country; unlike many veterans, they do not feel officially recognized and have been reluctant to seek help. Some have been plagued by symptoms of post-traumatic stress syndrome and exposure to chemicals. Others have harbored the fact of their service like a shameful secret." (Bunn) "Women served in Vietnam in many support staff assignments, in hospitals, crewed on medical evacuation flights, with MASH Units, hospital ships, operations groups, information offices, service clubs, headquarters offices, and numerous other clerical, medical, intelligence and personnel positions.

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Er verdiente 1,8 Millionen Dollar pro Folge, wurde vor laufenden Kameras gefeuert und brach innerhalb von Stunden einen Guinness-Weltrekord auf Twitter. Charlie Sheen hat Hollywood Dinge zugemutet, die sich kein Drehbuchautor ausdenken könnte - und genau das macht seine Geschichte so unglaublich."Winning & Losing: Die Biografie über Charlie Sheen" erzählt das Leben eines Mannes, der als Carlos Irwin Estévez in New York City geboren wurde, in Malibu aufwuchs und bereits als Kind neben seinem Vater Martin Sheen vor der Kamera stand. Von den Super-8-Filmen mit Sean Penn und Rob Lowe über den internationalen Durchbruch mit dem Oscar-Gewinner Platoon bis zur Kultrolle als Ricky "Wild Thing" Vaughn in Die Indianer von Cleveland: Sheens Aufstieg verlief rasant.Dieses Buch begleitet ihn durch alle Phasen seiner Karriere und seines Privatlebens. Es beleuchtet die Ära von Two and a Half Men mit Rekord-Gagen und die fristlose Kündigung durch Warner Bros., die berüchtigte Tiger-Blood-Phase, drei Ehen, den Skandal um Heidi Fleiss, die Verhaftung in Aspen und den Schlaganfall nach einer Kokain-Überdosis. Ebenso erzählt es von seinem öffentlichen HIV-Geständnis in der Today Show, der Versöhnung mit Chuck Lorre und dem Neuanfang mit einer eigenen Produktionsfirma und einer alkoholfreien Biermarke.Spannende Texte und großformatige Sketch-Zeichnungen machen die Stationen seines Lebens lebendig - vom Schulverweis kurz vor dem Abschluss bis zum Stern auf dem Hollywood Walk of Fame. Ob Börsendrama Wall Street, die Chaos-Tournee My Violent Torpedo of Truth oder der Cameo in Being John Malkovich: Hier wird nichts ausgespart.Das perfekte Geschenk für alle Fans von Charlie Sheen und für jeden, der wissen will, wie ein einziger Mann Hollywood gleichzeitig begeistern und erschüttern konnte.Darauf können Sie sich bei einem Kauf dieses Buches freuen:- Charlie Sheens Lebensgeschichte von seiner Kindheit bis heute- Alle Kontroversen, Erfolge und Wendepunkte seiner Karriere- Thematische Einblicke in Film, Familie, Skandale und Neuanfänge- Spannende Texte versehen mit passenden Sketch-Zeichnungen- Ideal als Geschenk für Fans und Filmbegeisterte

Er verdiente 1,8 Millionen Dollar pro Folge, wurde vor laufenden Kameras gefeuert und brach innerhalb von Stunden einen Guinness-Weltrekord auf Twitter. Charlie Sheen hat Hollywood Dinge zugemutet, die sich kein Drehbuchautor ausdenken könnte - und genau das macht seine Geschichte so unglaublich."Winning & Losing: Die Biografie über Charlie Sheen" erzählt das Leben eines Mannes, der als Carlos Irwin Estévez in New York City geboren wurde, in Malibu aufwuchs und bereits als Kind neben seinem Vater Martin Sheen vor der Kamera stand. Von den Super-8-Filmen mit Sean Penn und Rob Lowe über den internationalen Durchbruch mit dem Oscar-Gewinner Platoon bis zur Kultrolle als Ricky "Wild Thing" Vaughn in Die Indianer von Cleveland: Sheens Aufstieg verlief rasant.Dieses Buch begleitet ihn durch alle Phasen seiner Karriere und seines Privatlebens. Es beleuchtet die Ära von Two and a Half Men mit Rekord-Gagen und die fristlose Kündigung durch Warner Bros., die berüchtigte Tiger-Blood-Phase, drei Ehen, den Skandal um Heidi Fleiss, die Verhaftung in Aspen und den Schlaganfall nach einer Kokain-Überdosis. Ebenso erzählt es von seinem öffentlichen HIV-Geständnis in der Today Show, der Versöhnung mit Chuck Lorre und dem Neuanfang mit einer eigenen Produktionsfirma und einer alkoholfreien Biermarke.Spannende Texte und großformatige Sketch-Zeichnungen machen die Stationen seines Lebens lebendig - vom Schulverweis kurz vor dem Abschluss bis zum Stern auf dem Hollywood Walk of Fame. Ob Börsendrama Wall Street, die Chaos-Tournee My Violent Torpedo of Truth oder der Cameo in Being John Malkovich: Hier wird nichts ausgespart.Das perfekte Geschenk für alle Fans von Charlie Sheen und für jeden, der wissen will, wie ein einziger Mann Hollywood gleichzeitig begeistern und erschüttern konnte.Darauf können Sie sich bei einem Kauf dieses Buches freuen:- Charlie Sheens Lebensgeschichte von seiner Kindheit bis heute- Alle Kontroversen, Erfolge und Wendepunkte seiner Karriere- Thematische Einblicke in Film, Familie, Skandale und Neuanfänge- Spannende Texte versehen mit passenden Sketch-Zeichnungen- Ideal als Geschenk für Fans und Filmbegeisterte